“A Delaware Company by the name of Cathas Advanced Technologies has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple alleging that the company’s iOS Developer Program infringes on two claims of their patent titled ‘Web-Based Design Software for Keep-Alive Boards,'” Jack Purcher reports for Patently Apple.

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For the people who want to be productive, you are invited to leave this page as soon as possible. Please do not waste your time. This game becomes boring after a few iterations and will lead to brain decay at human scale or a blackhole at galactic scale.

Apple has a Mac developer program too, did they forget to sue about that one?. Tort Reform is really needed, these morons would be far less likely to sue if they had to pony up <b<all the legal fees if they lose.

Sounds good on paper, but would only hurt smaller organizations with legitimate patent infringement claims.

Better solution: eliminate software patents. They never should have been allowed. Thankfully Europe doesn’t recognize them, though multinational special interests are doing their damnest to ram or sneak legislation through that would.

“Better solution: eliminate software patents. They never should have been allowed.”
Agreed

My Bro is a Patent Attorney in D.C. and the place sounds like a mess- a revolving door of people punching their tickets before hiring out to the D.C. Law Cabal. What ends up happening is that very few have deep experience and stupid shit gets approved.

Microsoft patented the mouse click as an input if you can imagine that. Apple and others were shipping clickable mice for years before any Windoze or DOS box. PARC had mice when Jobs peeked under the Kimono pre-Macintosh.